Sökning: "Victorian domesticity"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Victorian domesticity.

  1. 1. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Lina Killmer; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

    Sammanfattning : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Room for Thought: Privacy and the Private Home in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Johanna Koivunen; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Privacy; interiority; Victorian domesticity; space; Virginia Woolf; modernity;

    Sammanfattning : Modernism is often connected to the public sphere due to its associations with urbanity and technological changes. But interiority and private life was as important to modernity and, in particular, in Virginia Woolf’s writing. LÄS MER

  3. 3. In Search of Firmness-Parenting and Education in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sari-Leena Viirola; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Dickens; David Copperfield; parenting; education; upbringing; parent-child relation; child abuse; firmness;

    Sammanfattning : Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield abounds with fatherless and motherless children, whose development into adolescence and adulthood is strongly affected by the parenting skills of the remaining parent. This essay studies different parenting and educational practices in the novel to see their impact on the behaviour and personality of the children. LÄS MER